DeFi tokens like LEND — the price of which has increased by 3900% since 2019 — rallied further this week, some to new all-time highs. Decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens from Balancer, Ben, Aave and Swissborg have all made huge gains, in the wake of excitement generated by the distribution of Compound’s governance token. Less than […]
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Waves founder Sasha Ivanov warns that decentralized finance’s surge might have negative consequences. Decentralized finance’s (DeFi) surging popularity might backfire and hurt the forward-looking sector, Waves cryptocurrency platform founder and CEO Sasha Ivanov told Cointelegraph in a recent interview. Ivanov compared DeFi to the 2017 ICO craze in a tweet earlier today, saying, “Please let’s […]
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Compound’s controversial COMP reward scheme triggered a gold rush of yield arbitrage, sending its assets under management and price to new heights. A user reward scheme to distribute the new Compound governance token (COMP) has resulted in a dramatic rise of the value locked in the decentralized finance protocol as traders sought to “farm” the […]
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Investor Jim Rogers thinks Bitcoin is still in a bubble and the cryptocurrency will eventually go to zero and disappear. The investment guru who said Bitcoin was in a bubble as early as 2017 recently speculated that all cryptocurrencies will be gone eventually. In an interview with the Asahi publication AERA dot on June 19, […]
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Blockchain for distributing votes and independent digital dollars take center stage in the this week’s regulation news. Editor’s note: These are times strange enough that every conversation seems to include some verbal acknowledgment like “strange times, huh?” A quasi-anarchist police-free leftist separatist bubble has formed and is growing on Seattle’s Capitol Hill — a sentence […]
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Bitcoin price rejected above $10,000 for the third time in a month, showing the multi-year resistance level remains a challenge for bulls to overcome. Within the last hour Bitcoin (BTC) price rose to $10,180 on BitMEX before quickly reversing to $9,600. The quick rejection means that for the third time in 30 days Bitcoin price […]
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A former Goldman Sachs vice president of investment banking: “We should be glad that traditional Wall Street hasn’t come around to embrace crypto yet.” When the Goldman Sachs report came out dismissing Bitcoin’s status as an asset class, there was significant backlash from the crypto community. This is understandable, as for those building in crypto, […]
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Bittrex and Poloniex have become embroiled in a class-action lawsuit that alleges USDT created out of thin air drove the 2017 bull run. The plaintiffs behind a class-action alleging that Bittrex and Tether drove the 2017 bull run through market manipulation have requested the issuance of summons to exchanges Bittrex and Poloniex. The lawsuit, first […]
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The world’s existing economies are suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has revealed the main benefits of decentralized tech and crypto. The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the economies of countries all around the world and is showing no signs of stopping. The overwhelming response from global governments has been to place their countries under […]
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Let’s take a look at some of the possible use cases for crypto and blockchain in the forthcoming years and decades. Surely though, there is much more to come. Over the last decade, we have witnessed the massive development of crypto. Formerly a geeky trend, crypto was once a questionable and not easily understandable invention […]
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